Yeah that sounds miserable, but I’m sure those employees also likely had nothing useful they could do for you as I imagine you stumbled into a series of SW if/then loops that took you down this bad path.

This is one reason why (if you have self control) it’s useful to increase credit limits (another being keeping utilization %’s low) - often times people ask “why bother, I don’t need it”.

Edit: not as a commentary on you by the way, just general observation - your situation I’d just log as unfortunate

Oh wow so you couldn’t run the card 2x (edit: or rather I’m surprised that failed)? I was thinking I could see how they’d block one large transaction over the limit, but 2 transactions below the limit and a balance below limit might go through.

Wow that’s nuts, too bad the vendor couldn’t break the transaction in 2 for you

Well keep in mind in the scenario you described, if the 15k limit card had zero balance, the 20k refund would take it to -20k balance and now you have a 35k limit card. The negative balance is a thing any CC will allow, as it’s basically you giving them an interest free loan

You mean SOC or something with an interposer? Cuz wouldn’t flip chip be bare silicon down to PCBA?

So… not a computer chip. A substrate is the base material of a PCBA (typically FR4 with copper layers), a computer chip is silicon.

In ottoman culture the blood moon was an auspicious sign - it’s said that there was a blood moon shortly before Mehmed II finally conquered Constantinople. Question is who’s it going to be auspicious for

It’s been a feature for several generations, started with series 3 and we’re on 8 now